On Mon, February 2, 2009 1:28 pm, Joseph Hall wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Shane Hathaway <sh...@hathawaymix.org> wrote: >> The main thing you need is ipmitool, which is an IPMI client. Try this: >> >> ipmitool sensor list >> >> I noticed about 3 years ago that one of the key differences that make a >> motherboard server-class rather than desktop-class is the presence of a BMC >> with IPMI support. > > Well, either I don't have a server-class motherboard in this box, or > it's not configured correctly. > > # ipmitool sensor list > Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: > No such file or directory > Get Device ID command failed > Unable to open SDR for reading
I was just looking into this for my servers, and it looks like it's a kernel option that has to be enabled. I've been wanting to schedule a reboot for some of my servers for a while anyway, so I may use this as an excuse. Having good sensors would be NICE. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
